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Very slow connection

01-29-2018, 02:41 AM

Of all the various forums and websites I visit, Casebook is by far the slowest to connect. Sometimes it can take 15 minutes before I get a full connection. It seems to me that this is possibly caused by the ads. Even when apparently fully connected it can sometimes take a long time for my posts to be uploaded. I am satisfied that my PC is not at fault as I don't have this problem with other sites I visit. Any ideas, please? Thanks.

Graham

We are suffering from a plethora of surmise, conjecture and hypothesis. - Sherlock Holmes, The Adventure Of Silver Blaze

This site always loads fast for me. Never had any real or noticeable problems. I wasn't aware this site ran ads but I do have adblock which I've noticed has blocked 5 ads. Maybe it's the ads themselves that are the cause?

Have you installed an ad blocker addon to your browser? Try adding one and see if it speeds things up.

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I've tried Casebook with and without Ad Blocker - it's just slow. Like I said, I regularly visit loads of websites and discussion forums, and have no problem with any of them. Only Casebook. Haven't a clue why. I just have to be patient, I guess.

Graham

We are suffering from a plethora of surmise, conjecture and hypothesis. - Sherlock Holmes, The Adventure Of Silver Blaze

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There will be several hops from here to the other side of the Atlantic and back - here's a "traceroute" I just ran, which shows just about half of them. Note the different timings for each hop on the right, in milliseconds:

If one of those hops lands on a dodgy router, those milliseconds could become seconds, and your browsing experience will suffer as a result.

Kind regards, Sam Flynn

"Suche Nullen" (Nietzsche, Götzendämmerung, 1888)

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Sam, thanks for this, and I hear what you're saying, but I regularly access loads of US and Australian websites and discussion forums, and not one of them is as slow as Casebook. It's not a disaster for me, just a mild annoyance, that's all. I'll live with it. I was just interested to know if anyone else has this problem.

Surely, signals being picked up in Wales will have to have travelled back in time about 120 years.....................??????????

Ta,

Graham

We are suffering from a plethora of surmise, conjecture and hypothesis. - Sherlock Holmes, The Adventure Of Silver Blaze

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Sam, thanks for this, and I hear what you're saying, but I regularly access loads of US and Australian websites and discussion forums, and not one of them is as slow as Casebook

Different connections can, and often do, take radically different routes - especially over long distances. I just ran simultaneous traceroutes to the Casebook and JTRForums websites, and the paths are very different:

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Sam, thanks for this, and I hear what you're saying, but I regularly access loads of US and Australian websites and discussion forums, and not one of them is as slow as Casebook. It's not a disaster for me, just a mild annoyance, that's all. I'll live with it. I was just interested to know if anyone else has this problem.

Surely, signals being picked up in Wales will have to have travelled back in time about 120 years.....................??????????

Ta,

Graham

Graham,

i occasionally have this problem too. Pages can take a minute or more to come up and last night I gave up trying to log in. I tried again an hour later and it was fine. I’m a complete caveman when it comes to technology but I wonder - do you use an iPad? I do and I wondered if it’s something to do with that? I had an issue with making posts a while ago and it was suggested that it might be because I had an iPad. I ended up following a suggestion of using a different search engine (Safari instead of Chrome) It worked straight away but I recently tried Chrome again and that worked too. It’s all witchcraft to me but I’m wondering if the occasional slowness is iPad related? Like you I have absolutely no problems with other websites or forums.

Regards

Herlock

“ Herlock is the cleverest man that I’ve ever met.” - Stephen Hawking.“ I wish that I could have achieved half as much as Herlock.”- Neil Armstrong.“ What a voice Herlock has.” - Luciano Pavarotti.“ I wish that I could dump Harry for Herlock.” - Meghan Markle.“ I know that it’s not good to be jealous but I just can’t help it.” - John Holmes.

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Pages can take a minute or more to come up and last night I gave up trying to log in. I tried again an hour later and it was fine. I’m a complete caveman when it comes to technology but I wonder - do you use an iPad? I do and I wondered if it’s something to do with that? I had an issue with making posts a while ago and it was suggested that it might be because I had an iPad. I ended up following a suggestion of using a different search engine (Safari instead of Chrome) It worked straight away but I recently tried Chrome again and that worked too. It’s all witchcraft to me but I’m wondering if the occasional slowness is iPad related? Like you I have absolutely no problems with other websites or forums.

An iPad (or any other device) may do wonky things trying to interact with (including loading) the site, but I'd put that rather low on the list of probabilities.

If it's only one or a few site that're slow, *and* it's only on the iPad (have you tried with the android phone?), I'd wonder if the DNS resolver cache has old information. The cache holds the information that the tablet needs to find things on the internet, and it can become outdated. Rebooting the tablet should flush the cache and fix that (and possibly make some other things work better too). In an ideal world, things would be more stable, but in the real world, rebooting often helps.

If it's only a few sites, but the phone and tablet are behaving identically, try hard rebooting (shut it completely down, and restart) your router. Some routers keep their own DNS resolver cache for the local network to use, and that may be stale.

If that doesn't help, then it's probably an actual routing issue. That's beyond your practical power to affect.